Papers, 1801-1839.

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Papers, 1801-1839.

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Twenty octavo volumes, 1801-1810, contain daily diary entries recording Greenwood's activities. The 21st octavo volume is a compilation of extracts from Greenwood's diaries, 1801-1825, that was prepared by Mrs. John Bartholomew in the early part of the twentieth century. Apparently the original diaries for 1811-1825 were then destroyed. The volume of extracts includes a checklist of Greenwood's portraits. The diaries contain frequent entries on travel around New England as he visited with friends and relatives (1801 entries provide information on his late uncle, Robert Dunlap). Other entries describe teaching and keeping store in Westminster, student life at Dartmouth College and West Point, painting in New York City with Edward Savage, business activities with Strong and Dodd, active social life in Boston, and most predominantly his art work. Greenwood commented often on politics (he was an ardent Federalist), the War of 1812, society, visits with prominent political figures, e.g., John Quincy Adams, meetings with notable artists of the period, and Greenwood's immersion in his work on the New England Museum, which he purchased and went to great lengths to re-organize in Boston and Providence, Rhode Island. The two folio volumes are account books for the New England Museum and the Gallery of Fine Arts. The accounts for the Gallery of Fine Arts, 1818-1825, show only records of the receipt of admission fees. The New England Museum accounts, 1818-1824, are more substantial and list receipts and expenditures, including museum purchases. The collection also includes a folder of manuscripts containing a variety of material, including an admission ticket for the New England Museum, receipts, one business letter, and a hand-lettered sign. Also included in the folder is a lengthy letter, c. 1835, from Greenwood to attorney Robert Gould Shaw (1776-1853) and the Rev. Edward Thompson Taylor (1793-1871) concerning the future of the New England Museum and a proposed school for sailors in the event of Greenwood's death. The letter contains a guide and abstract of the museum. The folder includes rough notes and copies of letters of Mrs. John Bartholomew concerning Greenwood, c. 1930s.

1 folder (17 items).2 v. ; folio.21 v. ; octavo.

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Dunlap, Robert, d. 1801.

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